Reversible car-seat.



m. 645,516.. Patented Mar. l3, I900;

w. L. SCHELLENBACH.

REVERSIBLE CAR SEAT.

- (Application filed Dec. 22, 1 899.} (No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet I.

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Patented Mar. l3, I900. W. L. SCHELLENBACH.

REVERSIBLE CAR SEAT.

No. 645,5l6.

(Application fllgd Dec. 22, 1899.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

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NITED STATES PATENT I? Eric's.

lVILLIAM L. SCI-IELLENBAOH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNCR I TO HENRY S. HALE, OF SAME PLACE.

REVERSlBLE CAR-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 645,516, dated March 13, 1900.

Application filed December 22, 1899 Serial No. 741,256. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. SCHELLEN- BAOH, acitizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of- 5 Philadelphia and State of Pennsy1vania,have

invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Reversible Oar-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to a car-seat, and

r in such connection it relates to the construc tion and arrangement of such a seat.

The principal objects of my invention are, first, to provide a car-seat with a back having mechanism for swinging and reversing I the same and the seat provided withacushion having means controlled by the movement of the back for tilting and locking the cushion of the seat; second, to provide a car-seat with an adjustable foot-rail adapted to be raised and lowered in its standards by manipulations of the back, and third, to provide a car seat with rails and an adjustable leg or cricket adapted to be seated and clamped to any position on the rails for adapting the same to existing 2 5 structural conditions of the car.

My invention, stated ingeneral terms, consists of a reversible car-seat constructed and arranged in substantially the manner hereinafter described and claimed.

3o Thenatu're and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof,

in Which-- I 3 5 Figure 1 is a front elevational view, partly sectioned and broken away, of a car-seat embodying the main features of my invention, the back of the seat being illustrated in a vertical or intermediate position. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 00 00 I of Fig. 1, the back of the seat and the cushion being removed. Fig. 3 is an elevational View of the aisle end of the seat, the frame or support for the cushion being sectioned and broken away to more clearly illustrate the mechanism for operating the back and cushion, and the back being shown in one of its inclined positions. Fig. 4 isan enlarged end elevational view of the back-operating mech- 5o anism, the two extreme positions of the back and its operating mechanism being illu strated in full and dotted lines. Fig. 5, is a similar View of the cushion and its tilting mechan ism. Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional view, en'- larged, of the frame supporting the cushion,

the arch or bridge supporting the cushion,

and back-operating mechanisms; and Fig. '7 is a perspective view, enlarged, of one of the sockets or bracketssecured to the seat-back and into which a portion of the operating mechanism is adapted to be removably inserted.

. Referring to thedrawings, the framework of the seat comprises the two end standards a and a, whereof one, a, is at the aisle end of the seat and forms a continuation of the channeled converging legs a and a while the other standard, 0/, at the wallof the car 7 is supported by channel-beams b and 6 which in turn aresupported by legs a and a", similar in construction and arrangement to the legs a and a Between the two standards a and a a cushion b is supported in the following manner: The two standards are secured together by the horizontally-arranged channel-beams b and b and to the under face of the cushion b, at either end, is secured a plate 19 adapted to rock or shift between the'two beams 19 and 12 each plate being beve1ed,'as at b at either end and the beveled ends resting on a vertical groove 19 in supports 5 secured, respectively, to the two beams b and b at each of their extremities. The tilting of the plates 6 and the consequent movement of the cushion b is accomplished by the movement of the back 6 of the seat, as hereinafter explained. The backeis provided at eitherend withabracket, as illustrated in Fig. 7, preferably formedof a plate 6, of metal, having the socket-fingers e and e stamped up out of the plate e and adapted to receive the free end of a lever f. This lever f is slotted at its other end, as at f, to receive a pin f carried by a sector-arm f which arm f at its toothed end is pivotally supported, as at), upon an arm 9. One end of the arm 9 is pivoted, as at (9 upon the bridge or arch d, and the other end of the arm is pivoted, as at g, to the lever f at a point above the slot f of the said lever. The teeth f of the sector-arm f are adapted to engage with and travel over a stationary pinion or toothed sector It, formed on or integral with the bridge or arch d. This connection of the seat-back 6 with the bridge or arch d, by means of the lever f, sector-arm f and connecting-arm 9, permits first of the eleva tion of the back above the cushion b into a substantially upright or vertical position, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, and then by a further movement of the back to occupy a reversely-inclined position, as illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 4. In the movement of the seat-back e, the sector-arm f, the toothed end of the arm f is provided with two pins 7c and located above and below and in a line which passes to one side of the pivotal point f of the sector-arm f These pins-are respectively connected by cords or chains 70 with a channel-beam 71: adapted to slide up and down in either inclined leg a or a on one end of the seat and in corresponding legs a and a at the other end of said seat. At the aisle end of the seat, as illustrated in Fig. 3, these chains or cords 70 pass directly from a corresponding pin it or is to a corresponding beam 7.0 but at the wall end of the seat, as illustrated in Fig. 2 and at the lefthand side of Fig. 1, the cords or chains 70 pass under pulleys k and over pulleyslr. to permit the chain to properly connect the pins to the beams.

In the movement of the back 6 to its successive positions the cushion l) is tilted so that its rear is always depressed below the back 6 and its front elevated. To accomplish this result, the arms 9 are each provided with two cam projections g adapted, respectively, as an army is moved to first engage one of two rollers g on a tilting plate 19 and to thereby swing said plates 12 and the cushion b, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 5. The beams k serve in their lowermost position as foot-rests for passengers occupying a seat immediately in the rear of said beams.

The adjustable legs or crickets a and a in Fig. 1 are provided with hook-bolts on, which pass over the edge of the channel-beams b and b and are locked to position at their opposite ends by nuts m, so that the legs a may be shifted and locked in any desired position along the said rails b and Z) to readily adapt the said crickets to any inequalities or other structural conditions present in the arrangement of the car.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a reversible car-seat, aback and mechanism for reversing the same, a supportingframe, consisting of two end standards each formed of two converging channeled legs, a

cross-beam adapted to slide up and down iii each leg of a standard, and a cord or chain connecting each cross-beam with the mechanism for reversing the back of the car-seat, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. In a reversible car-seat, a back, a lever connected to either end of said back, and having a slotted end, a sector-arm connected at one end to the slotted end of said lever, a bridge-piece supported "by the frame of the seatand having a toothed sector in mesh with the toothed end of the sector-arm, and a connecting-arm in pivotal connection at one end with said lever and at its other end with the bridge-piece, said sector-arm being pivoted to said connecting-arm at a point intermedi-.

ate of its pivoted ends, substantially as and for the purposes described.

3. In a reversible car-seat, a back, a lever connected to one end of said back and having a slotted end, a sector-arm connected at one end to the slotted end of said lever, a supporting-frame, consisting of two converging inclined channeled legs and horizontally-arranged channeled beams connecting said legs, a cross-beam adapted to slide up and down in each of said legs, chains or ropes connecting said sectorarms with said cross-beams, a bridge-piece connecting the horizontal channeled beams and having a toothed sector in mesh with the sector-arm, and aconnectingarm pivotally connected at one end to said lever and at its other end to said bridge-piece, said sector-arm being pivoted to said connecting-arm at a point intermediate of its pivoted ends, substantially as and for the purposes described.

t. In a reversible car-seat, a back and seat, mechanism adapted to reverse said back and tilt said seat, a supporting-frame, consisting of two end standards each formed of two converging channeled legs, a cross-beam adapted to slide up and down in each leg of a standard, and a cord or chain connecting each crossbeam with the mechanism for reversing the back and tilting the seat, substantially as and for the purposes described.

5. In a reversible car-seat, rails and an adjustable leg or cricket adapted to be seated and clamped to any position on said rails, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM L. SOI-IELLENBAOII. 

